Syracuse, NY -- A vendor was accused of trying to sell a handgun Sunday at the Central New York Regional Market.

Ronald Cottrell, 32, of 219 W. Ellis St., East Syracuse, was also charged in connection with a string of storage facility break-ins throughout Onondaga County, deputies said.

Cottrell, also known as Ronald Euson, was accused of trying to peddle a .25 caliber handgun to other vendors as they waited for the market to open early Sunday. A witness alerted an off-duty deputy -- working security at the market -- who confronted Cottrell and secured the unloaded handgun, said Sgt. John D'Eredita.

Meanwhile, Cottrell was already a suspect in burglaries at four storage facilities, one in November and the rest in March, D'Eredita said. Security images released to the media from a March 23 burglary at the Store More Pay Less facility in Van Buren led to numerous tips identifying Cottrell as the suspect.

All told, Cottrell was charged with felony criminal possession of a weapon and criminal sale of a firearm, as well as two counts of criminal possession of a weapon relating to the market incident. He was charged with 51 counts of felony burglary, 52 counts of misdemeanor possession of burglar's tools, 49 counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief, two counts of felony criminal mischief, nine counts of felony grand larceny, five counts of misdemeanor petit larceny and one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass relating to the storage burglaries, which are counted as individual crimes.

Cottrell was being held at the Onondaga County Justice Center jail without bail.

Besides the eight units at the Van Buren storage facility, Cottrell is accused of burglarizing 31 units at the Public Storage facility on Oswego Road in Clay, 10 units at the B & C Storage facility on West Entry Road in Lysander and 48 storage units at Uncle Bob's Storage on Thompson Road in Cicero.

In March, Cottrell started a business, RJ & Carrie's Storage Treasures, which sold items from storage lockers he bought at auction, D'Eredita said. The phenomenon has been popularized on the television show, "Storage Wars."